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  Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Dec 30, 2019 A major issue with operating ring-shaped fusion facilities known as tokamaks is keeping the plasma that fuels fusion reactions free of impurities that could reduce the efficiency of the reactions. Now, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have found that sprinkling a type of powder into the plasma could aid in harnessing the ultra-hot gas within a tokamak facility to produce heat to create electricity without producing greenhouse gases or l ... read more |
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SMAC in the DARQ: five trends shaping tech in 2020London (AFP) Dec 26, 2019 In 2020, will the wow factor return to consumer hardware? Will blockchain and 5G punch into the mainstream? Or will the world unify against Big Tech's tax-avoiding practices? ... more  
China launches powerful rocket in boost for 2020 Mars missionBeijing (AFP) Dec 27, 2019 China Friday launched one of the world's most powerful rockets in a major step forward for its planned mission to Mars in 2020. ... more  
China's Beidou navigation system to provide unique servicesBeijing (XNA) Dec 29, 2019 China will provide unique services to global users with the Beidou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) after its construction is finished in 2020, an official said Friday. Along with basic posit ... more 
China Focus: China to complete Beidou-3 satellite system in 2020Beijing (XNA) Dec 29, 2019 China will finish the construction of the BeiDou-3 Navigation Satellite System (BDS-3), with another two geostationary orbit satellites to be launched before June 2020, said BDS Spokesperson Ran Che ... more |
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NASA, Boeing complete successful landing of Starliner Flight TestWashington DC (SPX) Dec 24, 2019 Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft completed the first land touchdown of a human-rated capsule in U.S. history Sunday at White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico, wrapping up the company's uncrewed ... more  
Russia's Avangard hypersonic missile system has entered serviceMoscow (Sputnik) Dec 29, 2019 The Avangard is one of half-a-dozen new defence systems unveiled by Moscow in early 2018 as a means of restoring the global strategic nuclear balance amid NATO efforts to press up against Russia's b ... more  
US proposes remote ID requirement for dronesWashington (AFP) Dec 26, 2019 US regulators on Thursday unveiled a proposal to require privately operated drones to use remote identification - a kind of electronic license plate - as part of efforts to ensure airspace safety. ... more 
Inmarsat Government bulk orders airborne satcom terminals from Orbit CSNetanya, Israel (SPX) Dec 27, 2019 Orbit Communication Systems Ltd., a leading global provider of airborne communications and satellite-tracking maritime and ground-station solutions, and Inmarsat Government, a leading provider of gl ... more 
F-16 shoots down drone at Eglin AFB in cruise missile defense testWashington (UPI) Dec 27, 2019 An Air Force squadron shot down a subscale drone from an F-16 Fighting Falcon targeting pod in a cruise missile defense test, the Air Force announced. ... more |
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 Russia says first Avangard hypersonic missiles enter service 
Raytheon nabs $768.3M contract to provide AMRAAMs to foreign partnersWashington (UPI) Dec 27, 2019 Raytheon Missile Systems received a $768.3 million contract to produce Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles as well as captive air training missiles and support hardware, the Department of Defense announced. ... more  |
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Boeing awarded $265.2M modification to GMD missile upgrade contractWashington (UPI) Dec 27, 2019 Boeing was awarded a $265.2 million contract modification for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense anti-ballistic missile system, according to the Pentagon. ... more  
China's reusable liquid rocket engine completes 500-second testBeijing (XNA) Dec 27, 2019 China's 15-tonne reusable liquid oxygen-methane engine completed a run test with a duration of 500 seconds in Beijing on Wednesday. The engine, named JD-1, was developed by the Beijing-based r ... more 
Commercial suborbital carrier rocket launched in ChinaJiuquan, China (XNA) Dec 27, 2019 A commercial suborbital carrier rocket developed by a private Chinese company was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 4:50 p.m. Wednesday (Beijing Time). Th ... more 
Russia launches Rokot carrier rocket, Its Last Space Launch of 2019Moscow (Sputnik) Dec 27, 2019 The rocket is carrying three Gonets-M communication satellites and a Blitz-M technology satellite to orbit and marks Russia's 25th space launch this year. The Russian military reported later that th ... more 
From airport approaches to eCall in cars in 10 years with EGNOSParis (ESA) Dec 24, 2019 The Galileo satellite navigation system has been providing Initial Services for three years now. Meanwhile Europe's other satnav system has marked its tenth anniversary: EGNOS has been delivering en ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 18, 2019 
Recently established Australian ground segment operator Capricorn Space and Japanese Ground Segment as a Service provider Infostellar have signed an agreement that will enable Infostellar customers access to their satellite constellations from the Australian Ground Network - West (AGN-W) site near Mingenew in Western Australia.
Established by Capricorn Space to provide global satellite ope ... more |
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 Fairfax VA (SPX) Nov 28, 2019 
General Dynamics Mission Systems has been awarded a $731.8 million cost-plus-award-fee and firm-fixed-price indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity sole-source contract for the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) ground system sustainment. MUOS is a next-generation satellite communications system that provides secure voice and data communications for U.S. forces worldwide.
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 Beijing (XNA) Dec 29, 2019 
China will finish the construction of the BeiDou-3 Navigation Satellite System (BDS-3), with another two geostationary orbit satellites to be launched before June 2020, said BDS Spokesperson Ran Chengqi on Friday.
Friday marks the one-year anniversary of China's BDS-3 system providing global service.
Ran said at a press conference of the State Council Information Office that with the ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Dec 23, 2019 
Lockheed Martin received a contract valued at $7 billion for sustainment of the F-22 fighter plane of the U.S. Air Force, the Defense Department announced.
The long-term award is a modification of a prior contract and provides for the "exercise of an option for additional five-year ordering period for comprehensive F-22 air vehicle sustainment," a Pentagon statement on Friday said.
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 30, 2019 
Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology explore a new material combination that sets the stage for magnetic random access memories, which rely on spin - an intrinsic property of electrons - and could outperform current storage devices. Their breakthrough published in a new study describes a novel strategy to exploit spin-related phenomena in topological materials, which could spur several ad ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Dec 19, 2019 
NASA has selected United Launch Services LLC (ULS) of Centennial, Colorado, to provide launch services for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-T (GOES-T) mission, which will provide advanced imagery and atmospheric measurements of Earth's weather, oceans and environment, real-time mapping of total lightning activity, and improved monitoring of solar activity and space weather. ... more |
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 Lahore, Pakistan (AFP) Dec 30, 2019 
For the past few months Hasan Zaidi's phone has been ringing nonstop with calls from desperate residents in Pakistan hoping to get their hands on his newly invented air purifier as smog blankets the country.
"Some days, I had so many calls that I couldn't answer," says Zaidi during a recent interview with AFP in his workshop.
Tired of choking on putrid air, Zaidi spent six months perfec ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Dec 27, 2019 
China Friday launched one of the world's most powerful rockets in a major step forward for its planned mission to Mars in 2020.
The heavy lift Long March 5 rocket carrying a Shijian 20 test satellite payload blasted off from the Wenchang launch site on the southern island of Hainan at 8:45 pm (1245 GMT), a livestream from state broadcaster CCTV showed.
"After more than 2,000 seconds, the ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) Dec 18, 2019 
Russia on Wednesday lifted the veil on its tightly guarded space-based missile warning system, ahead of a vote in the US Congress on President Donald Trump's plan to create a new space force.
The new system, named Kupol or dome, is designed to detect launches of ballistic missiles and track them to their landing site, according to documents presented by the general staff to military attaches ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Dec 29, 2019 
The Avangard is one of half-a-dozen new defence systems unveiled by Moscow in early 2018 as a means of restoring the global strategic nuclear balance amid NATO efforts to press up against Russia's borders and create elements of a ground-based missile shield in Romania and Poland.
The first Strategic Missile Forces regiment to be armed with the nuclear-capable Avangard hypersonic glide vehi ... more |
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 Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Dec 19, 2019 
Polymers are used to develop various materials, such as plastics, nylons, and rubbers. In their most basic form, they are made up of many of identical molecules joined together over and over, like a chain. If you engineer molecules to join together in specific ways, you can control the characteristics of the resulting polymer.
Using this method, Sheng Shen, an associate professor of mechan ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 27, 2019 
Built in 1961, the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, is the cradle of robotic space exploration.
The first probes launched to the Moon, Mars and Venus were assembled here. So were all of NASA's Mars rovers, Galileo and Cassini (the first orbiters to Jupiter and Saturn), and the twin Voyager spacecraft that are scouting the farthest re ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Dec 27, 2019 
An Air Force squadron shot down a subscale drone from an F-16 Fighting Falcon targeting pod in a cruise missile defense test, the Air Force announced.
"This proof of concept can have implications for homeland defense missions, combined defense of the Arabian Gulf and beyond," Col. Ryan Messer, 53rd Wing Commander, said Thursday in a statement. "I am exceptionally proud of the efforts of ... more |
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